• cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Taking out Nixon, Kissinger, and Reagan would probably be the more effective use of time travel for preventing our current situation but I like where their heads are at

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      113·
      9 months ago

      I don’t know what is more depressing: realizing that if time travel were possible at any time in the future they would have come to fix this bullshit, so it isn’t possible ever, or that time travel will actually be possible but killing any of these four isn’t a priority because what comes next is so much worse, that all future time travel interference attempts will try to fix that what is yet to come. Or even better, this is the best possible timeline and killing Hitler or preventing the rise of global capitalism causes something even worse.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        You’re forgetting that your present is their past. They’re not going to change things in the past that led to such an advanced society that time travel becomes possible. They’re no more attached to your perceived suffering than you are to Genghis Khan’s victims, or Shaka Zulu’s, or Henry the VIII’s wives. It’s just academic to them. IDK if you ever watch star Trek, but it took WWIII, and the Eugenics Wars to lead to the post scarcity, intergalactic Federation of Star Trek. It is arrogant to think there’s something special about our era that would lead a time traveler here to make corrections. This is of course discounting the newer concepts about time travel, that they wouldn’t be changing anything about their present anyways, they’d just be creating another timeline.

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I’m a pretty big Trek nerd so I know all about that. I’m with janeway on the subject of fixing the past: Ignoring the TPD is much less of a headache, so fix away dear future readers 🙏

      • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Maybe someone did come back to fix the bullshit, but it created an alternate timeline that they are now living in, while we’re stuck in this shitty one

        • Piemanding@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          That’s one theory and there’s also a couple other theories. One where doing something back in time just removes the reason for going back in time so time travel doesn’t get invented. Another is that all time travel already happened and time travel can’t actually change anything because it is bound to happen either way.

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      5·
      9 months ago

      exactly, didn’t Trump run as a left leaning moderate in like 99 or something?

      and Thatcher would be the main culprit for the current state of affairs.

      • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        I know Thatcher was a monster but I’d be really and genuinely interested to learn why she’s more responsible than the aforementioned trio of scourges against humankind

        • metaStatic@kbin.social
          3·
          9 months ago

          if my swing in the dark on Trumps first presidential run wasn’t a big enough hint I don’t actually know anything …

          The root cause of these people was probably some nobody in a think tank that you will never find, Killing the public face would achieve nothing.